The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team continued its season with its first face-to-face meet on Friday and Saturday, February 12-13 at the Winter Tiger Invitational held on the Mount Pleasant Junior High campus. Due to COVID restrictions the meet was smaller than in years past with 13 schools competing in UIL academic events, six in the large school and 7 in the small school division. Overall, Mount Pleasant High School took first place at the meet. Ten teams including Calculator Applications, Mathematics, Current Events, Spelling, Ready Writing, Literary Criticism, Social Studies, Accounting, Speech and Debate and Journalism all took 1st place team honors in their respective events.

Full results include:

-Mount Pleasant High School: 1st place Sweepstakes team

-Calculator Applications: (1st place team)

10th grade: Isaac Hernandez (1st), Ethan Harbour (2nd), Clayton Brison (3rd)

12th grade: Miguel Segura (1st), Patricia Roque (2nd)

Overall: Miguel Segura (1st), Patricia Roque (2nd), Isaac Hernandez (3rd), Ethan Harbour (4th), Clayton Brison (5th)

-Mathematics: (1st place team)

10th grade: Perla Guzman (1st), Ethan Harbour (2nd)

11th grade: Nic Chappell III (1st)

12th grade: Miguel Segura (1st)

Overall: Miguel Segura (1st), Nic Chappell III (2nd), Perla Guzman (6th)

-Number Sense:

10th grade: Ethan Harbour (1st), Clayton Brison (3rd)

12th grade: Miguel Segura (1st)

Overall: Miguel Segura (1st), Ethan Harbour (5th)

-Science:

10th Grade: Natalie Crockett (1st), Ethan Harbour (2nd)

11th Grade: Esteban Trejo (4th)

12th Grade: Miguel Segura (5th)

-Current Events: (1st place team) Connelly Cowan (1st), Reid Pinckard (2nd), Isabella Greco (3rd), Ryan Sharp (4th), Tyler Welborn (5th)

-Spelling: (1st place team) Sophie Greco (1st), Anna Harris (2nd), Diana Velez (4th)

-Ready Writing: (1st place team) Juanita Gutierrez (2nd ), MaKayla Spigner (3rd ), Norma Delgado (4th), Angelica Hernandez (5th), Briana Sanchez (6th)

-Literary Criticism: (1st place team) Reid Pinckard (1st), Kylie Hedge (4th), Taylor Hubbs (6th)

-Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Reid Pinckard (1st), Kylie Hedge (3rd), Anthony Orellana (5th)

-Informative Extemporaneous Speaking: Taylor Hubbs (1st)

-Persuasive Extemporaneous Speaking: Reid Pinckard (1st), Anthony Orellana (2nd)

-Prose: Madeline Tumey-Simmons (4th)

-Social Studies: (1st place team) Brock Shavers (1st), Odalys Adame (2nd), Desline Chavez (3rd), Mya Clark (4th)

-Accounting: (1st place team) Victor Diaz (1st), David Perez (4th ), Tyler Welborn (5th)

-Computer Science: David Perez (1st), Victor Diaz (2nd)

-Journalism: (1st place team)

News Writing: Kylie Hedge (1st), Megan Adams (2nd)

Editorial Writing: Madison Adams (1st), Megan Adams (2nd), Kylie Hedge (3rd), Tairelle Chong (4th), Faith Logan (5th)

Feature Writing: Kylie Hedge (1st), Madison Adams (2nd), Megan Adams (3rd), Samantha Valdez (4th)

Headlines: Megan Adams (1st), Madison Adams (2nd), Kylie Hedge (3rd), Tairelle Chong (6th)

Copy Editing: Megan Adams (1st), Taryn Thurman (3rd), Madison Adams (4th), Tyler Welborn (5th)

The MPHS UIL Academic teams are coached by Gina Crouch (UIL Coordinator, Spelling, Current Events), Angie Priefert (Literary Criticism), Osias Hernandez (Math, Calculator Applications), Randy Ballard (Number Sense), Larry Russell (Science), Gabby Robbins (Ready Writing), LeAnne Blalock (Social Studies), David Clark (Accounting, Computer Applications, Computer Science), Enrique Martinez (Assistant UIL Coordinator, Speech and Debate), Tammy Thomas (Assistant UIL Coordinator), and John Whitten (Journalism).

Pictured: members of the 2020-2021 MPHS UIL Academic team